The second inmate who made a daring escape last month from a high-rise federal jail in the South Loop was captured today in the southwest suburbs of Chicago, according to law enforcement sources.
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Convicts escape from Metropolitan Correctional Center
The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the capture of two convicted robbers who rappelled down the side of a high-rise federal jail in the South Loop, scurrying some 15 floors to freedom on a rope made of bedsheets.
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